108 · Representative Documents: Training Material
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Introduction to Altmetrics for STEM Librarians
http://www.slideshare.net/lmgalloway/introductionto-altmetrics-062013
4/27/15
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Tradi�onal Tools
Ar�cle/Author Level Metrics
Cita�ons to an individual ar�cle or body of work
– Web of Science
– Scopus
– Google Scholar
h-‐index
– measures both the produc�vity and impact of the
published work
– Number of an author’s papers that have been cited at
least h �mes by other publica�ons
Comparisons Limita�ons to Tradi�onal Metrics
Take a long �me to accumulate
STEM focused
O�en behind pay walls
Measure influence narrowly
Don’t capture a publica�on’s impact or
influence in emerging forms of scholarly
communica�on
Altmetrics
Measure diverse impacts from
ar�cles, datasets, blog posts, slide shows, etc.
Beyond cita�on counts!
Readership
Views
Saves
Downloads
Scholarly (or popular) Buzz
What can be measured?
“Evidence of Use” – h�p://impactstory.org
# of Tweets
# of “Saves” in online reference managers
Scholarly (and popular) blog interest and
ac�vity
Ac�vity in social networking pla�orms, tools
And…